Even with Peks in net, after giving up three bad goals because of TEAM failures early the odds are slim that any goalie is going to hold the opposition to nothing. The TEAM put itself in a position where they needed perfection between the pipes for the last 48 minutes which is unrealistic. He lets in one bad goal, it's all his fault while the TEAM repeatedly failed in the defensive end resulting in far more than one goal.

still missing the point. I am not talking specifically about THIS game.

with better goaltending, we would have covered for some of the teams lapses, all season long, and won more games… or looked at from another viewpoint, perhaps the team has always been mediocre, except when playing in front of a goalie of Rinnes caliber… and only when we don't have a great goaltender is that mediocrity exposed.

so yes, this game was lost by the team early, and my point all along has been, that the very nice but ultimately futile comeback last night won't mean anything unless the team has finally figured out that it needs to play like that all night, every night, so they don't have to rely on a stellar goalie which we obviously do not have